The Bengal Beat Podcast: Recent Episodes

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The Bengal Beat Podcast is broadcast dedicated to Helena High Athletics in Helena, Montana

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Head Coach Dane Broadhead joins the Beat to chat about the upcoming season.

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Coach Ray Schulte sits down to talk about the season, state, and individual all conference and all state honors.  

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An extended interview with Bengals Softball Coach Ryan Schulte.  

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Hear from new Helena High Bengals Football Coach Dane Broadhead. 

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Hear one more time from Bengals former head coach Scott Evans.  

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Coach Day shares his thoughts after Helena's 62-42 loss to Bozeman.

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I sit down for a quick interview with head coach Brandon Day of the bengals as the team preps for their season opener against Bozeman on Friday, December 10th. 

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Coach Ben Dudek makes his Bengal Beat debut on this episode.  

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I sit down with Coach Scott Evans for a Bengals Football season wrap up.  This interview took place November 24, 2021. 

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The Bengals moved into the Semifinals with a 42-7 win over Bozeman.  I talk with Coach Evans about locker room dancing, the win over Bozeman, and a quick look at makes West such a good team.  

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Coach Evans discussing the Bengals first round win over Gallatin and we look ahead to their game against Bozeman Friday!

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The Bengals swept Crosstown with Varsity, JV and Freshman over Capital.  Coach Scott Evans shares his thoughts on the game, the plays, and the players.  We also talk playoff football as the Bengals get ready to face the Gallatin Raptors for the first time in the school's history.  

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Coach Evans and I discuss last week's 42-7 win over Big Sky.  Evans shares how his team is progressing as Crosstown and the playoffs loom.  We discuss the Freshman and Junior Varsity teams and how they have done this season.  And we finish with thoughts on Crosstown, a coaches view of Crosstown, and some memorable moments from Crosstown's past. I hope you enjoy! 

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On this episode Coach Scott Evans discusses the team's win over Flathead 51-0.  We, also, highlight the seniors as Coach Evans shares about each of the fourteen seniors on the Bengals.  

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Head Coach Scott Evans discusses the Bengals win over Glacier.  We also focus on a few of the players while talking about the team.  Hear what Coach Evans loves football and about when he fell in love with the game!  Also, bonus trivia at the end of the show about Soldier Field!

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Hear from Coach Scott Evans on this week's Bengal Beat.

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Hear from Coach Scott Evans on this week's episode.

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Hear from Coach Scott Evans and a recap of the Bengals 28-14 win over Billings Senior as well as a early look at season stats for the team and players. 

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Hear from Coach Scott Evans about last week's 22-0 win over Great Falls.  We also go through the game stats.

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We are back!  In this episode you will hear from Bengals Football Coach, Scott Evans!

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As fall sports have wrapped up hear from head coaches Scott Evans of HHS Football, Lindsey Day of HHS Volleyball and Jesse Zentz of HHS Cross Country. 

Scott Evans: Beginning

Lindsey Day; 15:36

Jesse Zentz: 27:13

We will be back soon with an awards show for fall sports and, hopefully, a basketball preview with Coaches Brandon Day and Ben Dudek. 

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Hear from Head Coach Scott Evans as the Bengals prepare from their quarterfinal game against defending state champion the Bozeman Hawks.  

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Hear from Coach Scott Evans and Coach Jesse Zentz on show 34 of the Bengal Beat!

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Hear from 

Coach Evans

QB Kaden Huot

LB Zac Evans

LB Ben Swanson

Volleyball head Coach Lindsey Day

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Hear from Coach Evans, Coach Day, Liz Heuiser, Kylie Lantz, Rylie Schoenfeld, and Rachel Plaster.

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Bengal Beat 31 has interviews from Coach Scott Evans, football players Chase Mcgurran and Marcus Evans.  Hear from Cross Country Coach Jesse Zentz and we have an update on volleyball's first week. 

Coach Scott Evans- 6:07

Chase Mcgurran- 27:08

Marcus Evans- 36:19

Coach Jesse Zentz- 47:28

Volleyball Update- 1:02:15

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And we are back!  Episode 3 of the Bengal Beat features interviews from coaches and players for football, volleyball, and cross country.  

Coach Scott Evans- 7:03

Junior FB Player Forrest Suero- 23:55

Junior FB Player Kaden Huot- 26:58

Coach Lindsey Day- 32:28

Senior VB Player Brooke Ark- 54:00

Senior VB Player Liz Heuiser- 56:42

Coach Jessee Zentz- 1:01:24

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In this episode, I sit down with Bengals Head Football Coach Scott Evans.  We cover a lot of ground in this one.  Enjoy!

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We catch up with Helena High Senior Hayden Ferguson. 

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In this episode hear from Ben Dudek the new Head Coach for Helena High Lady Bengal Basketball.  

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In this episode, we catch up with Caroline Bullock as she gets ready to graduate from Helena High and transition to college.  I ask her how she is doing, what's life like in the governor's mansion, who are some of her heroes, and about getting ready for college.  Good luck Caroline!

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In this episode hear from Softball Head Coach Ryan Schulte.  We talk about what got him into coaching, spring sports, the team, and the seniors.  

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On this episode hear from Former Lady Bengals Head Coach Eric Peterson (weird to type).  I also share my personal thoughts on each of the seniors for Bengals Basketball.  

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Western Divisional's are here!  Both Helena High teams enter as the #5 Seed and will play Glacier in the first round on Thursday.  On this episode hear from Coaches Brandon Day and Eric Peterson.  YOu can hear all the games on KCAP 950 AM and online at KCAP.COM.

Coach Brandon Day- 6:35

Coach Eric Peterson- 19:25

GO BENGALS!

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Hear from Helena High Head Coach Brandon Day before the Bengal's game vs Glacier on 2/29/2020.

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Hear from Coach Brandon Day before Helena High's game against Flathead on Friday, February 28, 2020.

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On this special episode of the Bengal Beat, I sit down with Montana Basketball Official Rob Tesch.  We discuss the stress of being an official, how officials watch a game, misunderstood fouls, and other topics.  My thanks to Rob for taking the time to chat. 

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I'm finally back!  I'm sorry for the long delay!  

On this episode we touch on Crosstown, the final two games of the regular season, standing for both girls and boys.  YOu will hear from Coach Eric Peterson, Coach Brandon Day and Boy's player Hayden Ferguson.

Coach Peterson: 6:03

Coach Day: 12:08

Hayden Ferguson: 16:50 

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Hey! An early Bengal Beat! Since I'll be out of town, I wanted to make sure you got to hear from the Coaches and give some stats from Crosstown and a look ahead to the Bengals' games against the Kalispell schools.

Coach Eric Peterson: 13:27

Coach Brandon Day: 31:20

Don't stop believing!

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Crosstown is here!  I give a quick overview of the four teams and then we dive into interviews from Caroline Bullock, Riley Thennis, Coach Brandon Day, Hayden Ferguson and Girls Freshman Coach Kaci Mathes. 

Caroline Bullock: 7:34

Riley Thennis: 12:01

Coach Brandon Day: 20:31

Hayden Ferguson: 24:30

Coach Kaci Mathes: 27:47

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Hear from Bengals coaches Eric Peterson and Brandon Day.

You will also hear from boy's basketball players Logan Brown and Hayden Ferguson. 

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The first week on Helena High Basketball is in the books.  Hear from Head Coaches Brandon day and Eric Peterson as well as Lady Bengal McKayla Kloker.  

Eric Peterson- 1:36

McKalya Kloker- 19:19

Eric Peterson- 28:00

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In this episode hear from Bengals Boy's Basketball Head Coach Brandon Day.  We talk about past players, current players, how he plans the program's offense and defense, other Montana AA teams he is watching, and the free youth basketball league he led with help from HHS basketball players and the community.  

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On this episode hear from Head Coach Eric Peterson of the Helena High Lady Bengals.  We talk about former players, current players, how the offense will change, superstitions, and family.

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On the podcast, this week Stewart and I decided to do a joint podcast for Helena and Capital.  We are joined with Helena IR Sports Editor Chris Peterson as We wrap up fall sports and take a quick look at both school's basketball programs.  

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On this episode, we catch up with Football Head Coach Scott Evans after the 17-7 playoff loss to Bozeman.  I talk about the game and its pivotal plays and stats.  Volleyball heads to Bozeman for the state tournament and we hear from Coach Lindsey Day.  Finally, I was able to meet with Cross Country Coach Kelly Gilbert (that's on me) and we talk about the season and some offseason information. 

Coach Scott Evans- 13:27

Coach Lindsey Day- 19:36

Coach Kelly Gilbert- 26:09

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Episode 12 of the Bengal Beat features a look back at football's 34-7 win over CMR. A look ahead to their playoff game against Bozeman coming up on November 8th.  And interviews with Coach Scott Evans, Coach Lindsey Day, and several football players.

Coach Evans-3:55

Ben Swanson-10:35

Zach Evans-12:26

Ayden Fasbender-14:47

Connor Rigsby-16:42

Hayden Ferguson-18:42

Coach Scott Evans (Bozeman Discussion)-28:02

Coach Lindsey Day-45:52

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On this episode we talk with Coach Scott Evans about Crosstown football and the upcoming playoff game against CMR.  Volleyball hosts their final regular-season home games against Glacier and Flathead. Cross Country finished their season, hear from State Champion Kylie Harnett, and girls coach Linda Paull. Soccer also finished their season. 

Coach Scott Evans: 4:01

State Champion Kylie Hartnett: 33:43

Coach Linda Paull: 39:26

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Here from Curt Synness about Crosstown as well as a selection of games down through the years that will feature some people you may have heard of, know personally or are even one of them!  

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On this episode of the Bengal Beat, we do a quick recap of Helena football, volleyball, and soccer.  We also hear from Coach Scott Evans and several players for football and volleyball.  Coach Evans then discusses Crosstown.  Enjoy!

Coach Evans: 2:43

Kyler Tesch: 13:08

Chase McGurran: 15:32

Zachary and Marcus Evans: 17:30

Hayden Ferguson: 20:47

Coach Evans on Crosstown: 25:02

Haydin Henschel: 36:27

Caroline Bullock: 38:43

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On this episode we recap football's big win against Glacier 20-6.  Volleyball had another great week and we recap their sweep of Hellgate and Cross Country took care of Captial in Crosstown.  We also have several interviews!

Coach Evans 7:04

Forrest Suero 11:15

Keyshawn Newby 12:40

Coach Kraft 14:40

QB Kaden Huot 20:22

Coach Day 23:37

Brooke Ark 26:34

Abby Marcille 29:21

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Hear from Head Football Coach Scott Evans and then we are honored to have four interviews from the Helena High Cross Country Program as we have Coach Kelly Gilbert and Linda Paull as well as runners Jonah Fisher and Kylie Hartnett.  

Coach Scott Evans: 2:17

Coach Kelly Gilbert: 16.22

Coach Linda Paull: 28:16

Cross Country Senior Jonah Fisher: 34:17

Cross Country Runner Kylie Hartnett: 39:53

Enjoy!

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In this episode hear from Head Football Coach Scott Evans on their 42-20 win over Hellgate last week.

We recap Crosstown Volleyball and hear from Head Coach Lindsey Day and play Emily Feller.

Cross Country competed in the Mountian West Classic in Missoula.

Finally, Boy's and Girl's Soccer played Capital in Crosstown.

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On this episode, we share highlights from the Bengals win over Big Sky in football.  Volleyball played Sentinel on Tuesday and won 3-1.  Cross Country ran on the same course that State will be on in Great Falls and Soccer played Hellgate.  Interviews on this episode are:

Coach Scott Evans-7:44

Football Logan Brown-12:11

Coach Lindsey Day-15:44

Volleyball Elizabeth Heuiser-17:32

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Recaps from football, volleyball, cross country, and soccer.  On this episode hear from Head Coach Scott Evans of Bengals Football, Cross Country Coaches Linda Paull and Kelly Gilbert, and Principal Steve Thennis 

4:25-Coach Scott Evans

15:55- Cross Country Coach's Paull and Gilbert

28:00- Principal Steve Thennis

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A recap of football's 19-0 win over Belgrade and a look ahead to the game against Butte on Friday.  Helena Volleyball is off to a 5-0 start and we recap last weeks games and their schedule for the Great Falls Invite.  Cross Country took 1st and 2nd last week at the Belgrade Invitational we run down the times and finishes. Finally, a recap of Crosstown Soccer from last Saturday.

Coach Evans Interview: 6:32

Hayden Ferguson Interview: 10:21

Coach Day Interview: 21:37

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Episode 2 of the Bengal Beat Features the following. 

Football recap: 1:55

Coach Scott Evans Interview: 4:28

Volleyball Recap: 9:40

Caroline Bullock Interview: 12:16

Cross Country Recap: 17:31

Boy's and Girls Soccer Recap: 18:53

Connor Murgel Interview: 19:38

Questions, corrections, or story ideas?  Reach me on Twitter @jtkemper

And as always thanks for listening!

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In this episode hear from Helena High Head Football Coach Scott Evans, Senior football player Hayden Ferguson, and Head Volleyball Coach Lindsey Day.  Also on the episode are brief previews of football, volleyball, boys and girls soccer, and boys and girls cross country.  

Interview Times

Coach Scott Evans: 3:36

Hayden Ferguson: 12:02

Coach Lindsey Day: 20:59